River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-08

,brothers) were killed Two negroes had
been arrested on suspicion
AT St Joseph, Mo, the new stock yards,
comprising 40 acres, were opened on the
LIST They cost 81, 600, 600, and are said TO
be complete In every detail
IL fight with whites at Cat Island, Ark,
on the LIST two negroes were killed and
many others injured The unfOrtunates
had teen arrested charged with insulting
white women, and at the trial were shot
down.
IN the Arensdorf trial at SiouxCity, Ia, on
the 2d, Byron Webster, Ia deputy revenue
collector. swore positively that Arensdorf
was not in the Shepherd saloon at the
time Of the murder. This testimony re-
flutes that of ArensdOrf, Hagenan and
Carson, by which an abb YVES sought to be
proved
AT Rathsay. Mimi, two cases of leprosy of
the most loathsome type were discovered
on the I'd
UNITED STATES officials discovered three
train robbers caves, full of stolen property.
near FL Paso, Tex, on the I'd
NEARLY the entire business portion of
Eminenee, Ey., was wiped out by confia-
CATION ON the I'd
JOHN EDWARDS, an eighteen-year-old boy
living in Darlington County, s C., on the
stop beating his mother. Not being obeyed
he shot at him with gun, killing his
mother, fatally wounding his sister and
slightly hurting his father
JUMPING Doc, the Indian arrested for set
ting ire TO the Cheyenne agency, after kill
ing his two guards on the I'd, committed
suicide
THE validity of an act of the special SEES
sion of the Legislature of West Virginia, by
which Mr.. Faulkner was elected United
States Senator, was denied by Circuit Judge
Thore on the ID
AT Mount Pleasant, s c., Jake Simons
CcoIored) was hanged on the I'd for the muir
der of Nike Plottkin, Jewish merchant
MASKED men rode into Charleston, Miss,
on the Sd, forced Jailer Vance to give up
the keys to the jail and took out three
negroes who attempted to XIII Frank Noun IL,
white man. and riddled them with bullets
THE strike of the job-printers in Chicago
came to an end on the 4th, the four hun
dred strikers being ordered to return to
their cases on the old basis of ten hours a
day for eighteen dollars per week The job
printers strike in ST. Louis was also de-
clared of, the men being ordered back to
work at the old rates
ADyICEs of the 4th from Cleveland say
that during the last season seventy boats,
valued at S777, 900, were lost on the lakes
and 1l6 persons persisted.
CENTRAL and Southern Illinois was visited
by heavy rain-stOrm on the Sd, the first
snce early last summer
A LARGE frame barn with contents, in
Guiding five valuable horses, were de
stroyed by fire ON the 4th at Peru, Ind
ARIZONA news of the 4th SAYS that the
Apaches were on the war-path again, and
that they attacked a party of travellers in
Mexico, killing one man and wounding
another
A FIRE on the Sd in a livery stable at Los
Angeles Cal, cremated ninety valuable
horses
In the Southern States during the past
year, east of the Mississippi, 1928 miles
of railroad track have been laid OF this
total about One-third is credited to Ala
bama
THE death of Eliza r. Snow, poetess and
prophecies of the Mormons and plural wife
OF Joe Smith, occurred on the 9th at Salt
Lake City. aged eighty-four years
OK the 9TH Joseph Comes made a success
full drop from a balloon at Springfield
Ill, by means of a parachute of his own
construction. He descended two thousand
feet
THE death Of John Owen Snyder, 1.-THE
man who couldn't stop walking" and who
appeared in many of the dime museums,
occurred on the 9TH at his home in Mill
Grove, Ind
The wife of Alderman Laughran died of
hydrophobia ON the 9th at Hot Springs,
Ark. A ferocious bull dog attacked her two
babes short time ago, and in rescuing
them the brave mother was severely bitten
A RECEIVER for the Royal Insurance Com
pany at Birmingham, Ala, was appointed
on the 9TH. The liabilities We're S157, 800,
and the actual assets ~. 900.
HoDGES & MILLER, of Louisville, Ky, the
largest bucket-shop firm in the country,
tailed on the 9TH for 800, 900